re: #222 Anymouse 🌹

Well, I can only go by what the Catholic Church itself says.

vatican.va (Catechism of the Catholic Church, from the Holy See)
usccb.org (US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Liturgy of the Eucharist, scroll down to the section Communion Rite)
vatican.va (Catechism of the Catholic Church on the nature of the Eucharist and its worship)

Some Lutheran and Anglican churches hold a different position (consubstantiation) that the body and blood comingle with the bread and wine. Transubstantiation holds the bread and wine are wholly converted (the Catholic and Orthodox position), while other Protestant faiths hold it is a memorial.

To an atheist, it’s just bread and wine. Hence the joke.

I know too much about how to search Christian sources for their own beliefs. That said, perhaps in retrospect, I shouldn’t have posted the joke from Twitter.

You always have to be careful what you say for fear of offending someone. Since pretty much everyone here knows I am an atheist, I’ll take a break away from here.

The nation’s laws (for now) have no religious tests, but society sure does (I’m offended being one of the ways to shame people into being quiet.)

I guess I won’t pull out a priest, a rabbi, and a Baptist walk into a bar joke.

I didn’t want to get into a religious argument, so apropos of nothing, a random historical observation: Many, many thousands of people have been burned for denying the “real presence” of the actual, physical body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.

Again, just a random observation….